Conservation News ~ 24 August 2019

• Shimmery Blue Tarantula discovered: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/08/new-blue-tarantula-species-found/
• Major fashion companies to make G7 pledge to help environment: https://ca.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idCAKCN1VD0PP-OCABS
• Famed foodie Eddie Huang goes vegan in response to Amazon forest fires: https://vegnews.com/2019/8/famed-foodie-eddie-huang-goes-vegan-in-response-to-amazon-rainforest-fires
• International Wildlife committee gives Giraffes new protections: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/23/science/giraffes-endangered-protections.html
• Ireland could oppose trade deal if Brazil fails to stop Amazon fires: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/ireland-will-vote-against-mercosur-deal-if-brazil-fails-to-protect-amazon-taoiseach-1.3994516
• France threatens to block trade over Amazon fires: https://www.apnews.com/df4d58900129449796c8c51e4a706d2e
• Macron urges G7 members to put Amazon fires at top of agenda: https://www.npr.org/2019/08/23/753639869/macron-urges-g7-members-to-put-amazon-fires-at-top-of-agenda
• Scientists successfully inoculate, grow crops in salt-damaged soils: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190822124834.htm
• Canadian taxpayers on hook for $61 million for road to open up mining in Arctic: https://thenarwhal.ca/canadian-taxpayers-61-million-road-open-mining-arctic/
• Yukon’s Peel watershed is now protected: https://www.yukon-news.com/news/its-official-most-of-the-peel-watershed-is-now-protected/
• Mosquitos push northern limits with time-capsule eggs to survive winters: https://phys.org/news/2019-08-mosquitoes-northern-limits-time-capsule-eggs.html
• Las Cruces bans glyphosate herbicides: https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/local/2019/08/21/las-cruces-bans-glyphosate-herbicides-like-roundup-city-property/2054974001/
• Michigan men fined thousands for poaching Canada geese, ducks: https://www.foxnews.com/great-outdoors/michigan-hunters-fined-thousands-poaching-canada-geese-ducks
• Wildlife summit votes down plan to allow sale of huge ivory stockpile: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/22/cites-wildlife-summit-giraffe-protections-global-trade-parts-saiga-antelope-horn
• White-tailed eagles return to southern Britain after 240 years: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/22/white-tailed-eagles-southern-britain
• US tightens eligibility for species protections, but Ohio stands pat: https://www.cleveland.com/news/2019/08/us-tightens-eligibility-for-species-protections-but-ohio-stands-pat.html
• There are way more species of horseshoe bats than scientists thought: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/08/190822081158.htm
• Advocates sue to block White House changes to endangered species rules: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/advocates-sue-block-trump-administration-endangered-species-rules/story?id=65101509
• Brazil president accuses NGOs of setting fires to Amazon: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/21/jair-bolsonaro-accuses-ngos-setting-fire-amazon-rainforest
• Two tigers seized from traffickers every week: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/21/tigers-seized-traffickers-report-wildlife-summit
• Planting trees is good. Eliminating deforestation is better: https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2019/08/planting-trees-is-good-eliminating-deforestation-is-better/
• Los Angeles to build world’s largest wildlife bridge across 10-lane freeway: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/21/los-angeles-wildlife-bridge-mountain-lions
• New species of stegosaur is oldest found anywhere in the world: https://phys.org/news/2019-08-species-stegosaur-oldest-world.html
• Norway freezes $33.2M transfer to Brazil’s Amazon fund amid deforestation surge: https://www.ecowatch.com/amazon-deforestation-norway-fund-2639894385.html
• An array of new snakes from India have been described: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2019/august/an-array-of-new-snakes-from-india-have-been-described.html
• The Amazon is on fire and the smoke can be seen from space: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/08/20/amazon-rainforest-fires-smoke-seen-space/2067220001/
• Oakridge, Oregon man, 22, pleads guilty in death of endangered Gray Wolf OR 28: https://www.registerguard.com/news/20190820/oakridge-man-pleads-guilty-in-death-of-endangered-gray-wolf-or-28
• Canadian feds announce $175 million for new conservation projects: https://thenarwhal.ca/biodiversity-crisis-feds-announce-175-million-new-conservation-projects/
• Brazil will let trophy hunters shoot jaguars, parrots, and monkeys: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-hunt-shoot-endangered-animals-jaguar-wildlife-rainforest-amazon-bolsonaro-a9055776.html
• Logging moratorium in Indonesia’s forests made permanent: https://news.mongabay.com/2019/08/indonesia-forest-clearing-ban-is-made-permanent-but-labeled-propaganda/
• Solar-powered desalination plant in Kenya gives fresh water to 25,000 people a day: https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/solar-power-desalination
• The world’s largest vegan restaurant is opening in Dubai: https://www.thenational.ae/lifestyle/food/world-s-biggest-vegan-restaurant-to-open-in-dubai-1.894749
• Group of top CEOs says maximizing shareholder profits no longer can be the primary goal of corporations: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/08/19/lobbying-group-powerful-ceos-is-rethinking-how-it-defines-corporations-purpose/
• Governor Bullock announces Grizzly Bear Advisory Council members: https://www.kulr8.com/news/governor-bullock-announces-grizzly-bear-advisory-council-members/article_50de768e-afea-11e9-8461-cf4f96b5d93b.html
• British Airway ends ties with SeaWorld: https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/british-airways-ends-ties-seaworld/
• Kakapo population cracks 200: https://www.nzgeo.com/audio/skraark-kakapo-population-cracks-200/
• Siskiyou Mountains Salamander Endangered Species petition denied a second time: https://www.ijpr.org/post/siskyou-mountains-salamander-endangered-species-petition-denied-second-time
• Environment groups warned saying climate is real could be seen as partisan: https://toronto.citynews.ca/2019/08/18/climate-change-partisan-fedelxn/
• Fatal disease threatens Indiana deer populations: https://www.indianaenvironmentalreporter.org/posts/fatal-disease-threatens-indiana-deer-population
• Colombia confirms that dreaded fungus has hit its banana plantations: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/colombia-confirms-dreaded-fungus-has-hit-its-banana-plantations
• Animal fat on pottery reveals a nearly catastrophic period of human prehistory: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/08/animal-fat-ancient-pottery-shards-reveals-nearly-catastrophic-period-human-prehistory
• New species of freshwater fish in India: https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/new-species-of-freshwater-fish-found/article29121424.ece
• Nene population on the rise: https://www.thegardenisland.com/2019/08/04/hawaii-news/nene-population-on-the-rise/
• Few rats remain on Lehua island after 2 years of treatment: https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/08/13/hawaii-news/few-rats-remain-on-lehua-island-after-2-years-of-treatment/
• Norway refuses to drill for billions of barrels of oil in Arctic, leaving ‘whole industry surprised and disappointed’: https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/norway-oil-drilling-arctic-ban-labor-party-unions-a8861171.html